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Anna Betts

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Breaking News Reporter at The Guardian

reporter @GuardianUS • formerly @nytimes @buzzfeednews • writing also in @washingtonpost @verge @ellemagazine etc. •

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  • Final phase of jury selection in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s sex-trafficking trial postponed

    5 days ago | theguardian.com | Anna Betts

    The final phase of jury selection for the racketeering and sex-trafficking trial of the hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been postponed to Monday. In a ruling on Friday morning, Judge Arun Subramanian, who is presiding over the case, decided that jury selection will now wrap up on Monday morning due to concerns that jurors might drop out over the weekend if the panel was finalized on Friday as originally planned.

  • ‘Deep dish eucharist’: internet reacts to US pope with jokes and Chicago pride

    6 days ago | theguardian.com | Anna Betts

    The internet exploded with humor and Chicago pride on Thursday following the historic announcement that Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American clergyman from Chicago, has been named the new pope. Now known as Pope Leo XIV, Prevost has become the first clergyman from the United States to lead the Roman Catholic church, ending the Vatican’s longstanding opposition to the idea of a US pontiff.

  • Bill Gates announces end of Gates Foundation and decries Elon Musk for Doge cuts

    6 days ago | theguardian.com | Anna Betts

    Bill Gates announced plans on Thursday to shutter the Gates Foundation in 2045 and also strongly criticized Elon Musk for slashing funding to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), accusing the Tesla CEO of “killing the world’s poorest children” in new interviews.

  • University of Washington faces federal review after pro-Palestinian protest

    1 week ago | theguardian.com | Anna Betts

    The Trump administration has launched a review into what it describes as “recent incidents of antisemitic violence” at the University of Washington and its affiliates following a pro-Palestinian protest there on Monday that led to about 30 arrests. On Monday, protesters associated with the student group Super UW – short for Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return – temporarily occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building on the university’s Seattle campus.

  • Trump White House says ‘no final decisions’ on foreign film tariffs

    1 week ago | theguardian.com | Anna Betts |Lucy Campbell

    The White House said on Monday that no final decisions have been made about imposing tariffs on foreign films, just a day after Donald Trump declared a 100% tariff on all movies produced outside the United States – an announcement that sparked widespread alarm across the global film industry.

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Anna Betts
Anna Betts @annabettss
30 Apr 25

NEW: A federal judge in Vermont has just ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and student at Columbia University who was detained and ordered deported by the Trump administration April 14. https://t.co/DUpDmk4a2d

Anna Betts
Anna Betts @annabettss
8 Apr 25

Exclusive: In a letter marking one month since the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, his wife, Noor Abdalla, vows to continue to fight for his release and for the right to speak up on behalf of Palestinian rights. Read the letter here. https://t.co/2bN6KpI99d

Anna Betts
Anna Betts @annabettss
31 Mar 25

RT @maiarcoleman: Domingo Tapia and Gary Anderson crossed paths for no more than a second. But seven years later, the violent and inexplica…